In 1981, after I’d been working at Life of Georgia for about a year, I was moved into their management trainee program. A lovely, very intelligent young woman named Loveanne was hired to replace my old position. I was smitten and luckily she was, too. About a year...

Back home, few leaders are more revered than the great football coach Erk Russell. He was an assistant coach for my alma mater, the University of Georgia, for a long time, and later he built Georgia Southern University into a Division I-AA powerhouse. I heard him...

People do not love traveling with me because I never check a suitcase. It doesn’t matter where I’m going or how long I’m going to be there, I’ll do the entire trip with a duffel bag. You see, when I get off a plane, I don’t want to stand around waiting. I’m ready to...

SUCCESS Leadership Editor John Addison explains why you should make 100 percent of your team feel important 100 percent of the time in this excerpt from his book, Real Leadership: 9 Simple Practices for Leading and Living with Purpose, now available in...

When I took my first job after college, my goals and ambitions were pretty small. Words like executive, and CEO weren’t even in my wheelhouse. I just wanted to make enough money to be able to cover my part of the rent on the small apartment I shared with a couple of...